Film review: Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Unique perspective on controversial Tibetan lama’s life and teachings skews toward the reverential. Well before American Buddhists and New Age acolytes began flocking to the feet of Tibet’s Dalai Lama,...
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Peggy Fletcher Stack (Salt Lake Tribune): Charles Prebish’s path through American Buddhism has taken him to cities and universities, libraries and seminars, academic tugs of war, Zen centers,...
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“A Little Book of Love” by Moh Hardin
This is the first book by Moh Hardin, an acarya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and teaches classes on Buddhism and meditation in Canada and the...
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“Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness” by Chogyam Trungpa
As a long-standing Western Buddhist, my curiosity was piqued by this book. Work, sex and money are crucial issues to all of us, so I was interested to hear what Trungpa said. Chogyam Trungpa was a...
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Fully Alive: A Retreat with Pema Chodron On Living Beautifully with...
Pema Chodron was the first North American born woman to become an ordained Bhikkhuni. She teaches in the Shambhala tradition begun by her mentor and teacher Chogyam Trungpa. Meg Wheatley, who assists...
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“The Five Mindful Keys to Communication,” by Susan Gillis Chapman
I first started reading The Five Mindful Keys to Communication while waiting for my daughter at the airport. At the same time, a text came in from a young friend, announcing that he was probably going...
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The backward step
Tibetan teacher Chögyam Trungpa once opened a class by drawing a V on a large white sheet of poster paper. He then asked those present what he had drawn. Most responded that it was a bird. “No,” he...
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How not to practice “idiot compassion” (Day 33)
Chogyam Trungpa borrowed from Gurdjieff the very useful notion of “idiot compassion.” Gurdjieff, a rather fascinating spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century, had said that we are all idiots...
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The trance of fear
All of us live with fear. Whenever fear takes over, we’re caught in what I call the trance of fear. As we tense in anticipation of what may go wrong, our heart and mind contract. We forget that there...
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Ebola: the Buddhist connection
There’s an unusual connection between Ebola and Buddhism. Ashoka Mukpo, one of a handful of Americans who have contracted Ebola, was identified soon after his birth as a reincarnated lama, or Tulku....
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